Hello,
Some work was/is carried out by Shigeru Montani and colleagues at Kagawa
University.
S. Montani et al. (1998). The effect of a tidal cycle on the dynamics of
nutrients in a tidal estuary in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Journal of
Oceanography 54:65-76
Regards,
Olivier Decamp
Dr. Olivier Decamp
Coastal Environment and Productivity Division
National Research Institute of Fisheries and
Environment of Inland Sea
Maruishi, 2-17-5, Ohno, Saeki
Hiroshima 739-0452
Email: decamp at nnf.affrc.go.jp
At 2:29 PM 99.3.2 +0000, ERIC at COASTAL.EDU wrote:
>Dear colleauges, if anyone out there could help, I'm interested in
>getting a hold of any work that has been done dealing with the
>influence of environmental fluctuation on microbial diversity. I am
>involved in estuarine research, and the sites within the estuary are
>characterized by a strong gradient not only in mean concentration
>(or value) of nutrients, DOM, salinity, etc... but also a strong
>gradient in the diel & tidal variability (what I'm calling pulse) of
>these factors. I would be interested in ANY work that has examined
>this type of environmental variability on microbial (bacterial & phyto
>plankton) diversity - this could be field, lab or theoretical work. I have
>searched oceanic abstracts for 1981 - present and there is very little
>available there. I appreciate any response concerning this request.
>Thanks in advance for your consideration.
>>Sincerely,
>>Eric Koepfler
>Associate Professor
>Marine Science Department
>Coastal Carolina University
>Conway, SC 29526
>ERIC at COASTAL.EDU